| PayPal lines up 15 retailers for mobile payments, will let you buy Jamba Juice smoothies with a smartphone May 25th 2012, 10:35  Although PayPal's mobile payment system started out small with a Home Depot deal, that snowball is quickly rolling itself into a boulder. Starting next month, 15 extra US retailers will be happy to see you slap down your smartphone (not literally, we hope) instead of a credit card. The selection leads us to think a lot of smartphone owners like to shop for wearables -- Aéropostale, Foot Locker and JC Penney are in the batch, along with others -- but there's a few useful exceptions, like Barnes & Noble, Jamba Juice and TigerDirect. At least a total of 20 merchants are expected by the end of year, and as with Home Depot, you won't need special hardware besides an Android or iOS device to spend your hard-earned cash. We'll just be thankful we won't have to buy our yogurt with actual cash, like savages. PayPal lines up 15 retailers for mobile payments, will let you buy Jamba Juice smoothies with a smartphone originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 May 2012 06:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Reuters |  PayPal Blog | Email this | Comments | | Google's Project Glass... it's spreading (sample video) May 25th 2012, 09:29  Now, we're not saying Google's elite are actually aliens managing human social affairs, but if you were our reader Ben who ran into a crew of Project Glass-equipped Googlers breaking for drinks at a Los Gatos wine bar, it might seem like a possibility. Beyond filing tons of paperwork, the team is clearly expanding quickly and most recently took part in the Google+ photographer's conference to show off what POV pictures and video (even if that's most of the functionality so far) could add to the world of photography. They wouldn't let Ben try on a pair, but Vic Gundotra reiterated that it was positioned as not to interfere with conversations, and make images appear to be floating in front of your eye. There's video of the photography presentation after the break (jump to about 45 minutes for the first person pics), as well as a few more pictures on Google+, but we'd keep a pair of special black sunglasses and bubblegum handy just in case. In addition to these candid snaps, some sample video footage, taken with the glasses has popped up on Google+, also after the brek.
[Thanks, Ben] Continue reading Google's Project Glass... it's spreading (sample video) Google's Project Glass... it's spreading (sample video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 May 2012 05:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Ben Baranovsky (Google+), Project Glass (Google+) | Email this | Comments | |
